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	Slavic fairies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The ghostly version of the succubus is the soul of a young woman who died in or near a lake (many of these rusalki were murdered by lovers), and came to haunt that lake; this undead rusalka is not particularly malevolent, and will be allowed to die in peace if her death is avenged.
		In Polish mythology, Rusalki are the spirits that live in the waters from Fall to Spring; in some traditions they reside in the waters from Summer to Fall.
		The belief that the thunder and lightning of spring time was brought by the Sky Women mating with the thunder gods; so Spring festivals included celebrating the return of the Rusalki from the waters by placing wreaths on the waters, circle dances, and fire festivals.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slavic_fairies (984 words)

	The Rusalki: Slavic Nature Nymphs
		The Rusalki are commonly considered to be the spirits of young women who have met their fate through drowning, whether by accident, suicide or malicious intent (sometimes from their own mothers).
		The Rusalki spend most of their time in such pursuits as combing their long luxurious hair, playing amongst themselves, and luring innocent victims to their deaths, but they are also known for being spinners.
		The Rusalki are also acknowledged for their ability to regulate the cycle of the seasons, the moon, and the local weather.
	www.mythicarts.com /writing/Rusalki.htm (3289 words)

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		The Rusalki have a rudimentary language with the whales, who are of an intelligence equal to the Rusalki, although a different nature of intelligence.
		Because of their beliefs, both life and death are sacred to the Rusalki, and an honored member of the tribe or a respected enemy will be eaten upon death.
		All Rusalki are believed to have a life-path to follow, known as their "Current".
	www.silverselene.com /blizzard/rusalki.html (1390 words)

	leshy, leshy - www.ezboard.com
		The only ones who have a choice when it comes to dealing with a vodanoi are drowning maidens (particularly maidens drowning by their own hands), who have the option of becoming their brides, and becoming rusalki.
		Rusalki are generally seen as being beautiful women, with very pale skin, and long sodden hair (should it dry out, they will die); when they comb it, they can cause floods.
		I always associated the tickling-to-death with Rusalki, and put it in the same category as pulling mortal men into streams to be their lovers, without remembering they wouldn't be able to breathe-- a characteristic careless ignorance of mortality.
	www.surlalunefairytales.com /boardarchives/2004/jul2004/leshyleshy.html (891 words)

	KITKA: Rusalka/Ukraine Fundraising Appeal
		Rusalki are enticing, shape-shifting entities that inhabit the waters, forests, and fields and lure people to them with their songs and laughter.
		Rusalki are spinners who regulate human, animal, and agricultural fertility, the cycles of the seasons and the weather.
		It is during this week that the Rusalki are believed to leave their water dwellings to wander in the forests and fields, bringing moisture to the new crops.
	www.kitka.org /calendar/ukrainefundraisingappeal.html (1488 words)

	RUSALKI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Rusalki of Slavic lands are intimately tied to the seasons, changing markedly as Spring and Summer give way to Autumn and Winter.
		Self-centred in any case, the Rusalki are Sirens of water and wood, blending their blood with the rustic farmers, woodsmen and fishermen who call the great Russian wilderness home.
		The Wilder Rusalki are comely maidens, full and curvaceous of form, delighting in luring and seducing new 'playthings.' Grump Rusalki are stately, mature, and breathtakingly womanly in Spring and Summer, with deep-running passions.
	www.kopalnia.rpg.pl /mirror/adashiel/archive/rusalki_kith.html (736 words)

	Gray Owl’s Blog » Blog Archive » Rusalki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rusalki (plural, rusalka singular) are water spirits, usually female.
		The strength of the rusalki waxes and wanes with the cycle of the year, being reborn at the winter solstice and reaching the peak of their strength at the summer solstice.
		It is nice to give an offering to the rusalki on the winter solstice to help them to begin to regain their strength such as tea leaves or bread with salt.
	www.grayowlshaman.com /?p=5 (264 words)

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		Rusalki is linked to Musicians without Borders, a world-wide organisation that uses music as a means of reconciliation, creating connections across ethnic and religious lines (www.musicianswithoutborders.nl).
		After their discovery in 1996, Rusalki has been invited to perform at countless major events, such as the Peter the Great Happening in Moscow, Sail 2000 Amsterdam, the International Slavyanski Bazar Festival in Kiev and recently to celebrate the 300th anniversary of St Petersburg.
		A Rusalki performance can be anything from one or more short sets to a full concert of 1.5 hours.
	www.rusalkiquartet.nl /pf.html (843 words)

	Rusalka - www.ezboard.com
		They are fascinating figures, occupying a position that is part warning, and part wish fulfillment; supposedly, rusalki are girls who died through suicide or violence, granted a choice after death as to whether they wish to move forward into a traditional afterlife, or to remain on earth.
		Their character definitely differs from region to region; in southern Russia, the Ukraine, and Belarus, the rusalki have alluring qualities; in the Northeast, they are figures of repulsion, very similar to the furies.
		They possess fiery eyes, hunchbacks, sharp claws, pendulous bosoms, and are prone to more aggressive behavior; where the rusalka would mainly tempt or toy with her victims, these figures would drag their prey to a marshy death.
	www.surlalunefairytales.com /boardarchives/2002/sep2002/rusalka.html (716 words)

	Wormwood Herb from Alchemy Works - Herbs for Witchcraft and Magick
		In Russia, wormwood was effective against the green-haired Rusalki, female water spirits who in spring would leave their watery bodies and walk in the woods.
		In the region of Saratov, Rusalki were frightening creatures ill-disposed towards humans and eager to use their sharp claws.
		If you had to go into the woods when the Rusalki were about, you were advised to carry a handful a wormwood, which they could not stand.
	www.alchemy-works.com /herb_wormwood.html (321 words)

	Ballet Instructor's Newsletter (12-15-02): Swan Lake versus Bourne
		Rusalka is not a swan maiden and she is categorized under ‘natural spirit,’ normally residing in a specific location, such as lakeside, and, hence, a folktale and not a fairy tale.
		But, the concept of it exists within Rusalki culture, where each year, traditionally, a stuffed doll, made of hay, is drowned or torn apart at the site of a lake to appease Rusalki.
		The Queen returns to her son's room, finds him dead and while she begins to show, for the first time, loving emotion towards him, there is a vision of the two (the Prince and the dream swan), embracing, hovering overhead.
	www.100megsfree4.com /ballet/newsletter6.html (4281 words)

	Sunbirds.com: Rusalki - Russian Lacquer item (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Russian mermaids, or rusalki, are much different than the mermaids that have been depicted in popular American films.
		They are commonly referred to as wood sprites, and although they usually lived in rivers and lakes, they would often come out of the water and swing on the forest branches.
		Gold and silver paint are also used to detail and ornament the figures' clothing, especially on the rusalki's lace and gauze dresses.
	www.sunbirds.com /lacquer/box/991989 (644 words)

	Stephanie Flom: Artist's Statement
		Rusalki were honored with an annual festival each June.
		The weeklong festival was held at the beginning of the summer when the Rusalki emerged from the rivers and went into the fields, meadows and forests.
		The forest where the Rusalki lived was said to contain a magical well with healing waters.
	telstar.ote.cmu.edu /environ/main/flom.html (386 words)

	The Goddess of A Thousand Names-VIila of the Forest- Slavic Goddess
		The rusalki are Slavic water spirits, the female counterpart of the vodyanik, and are thought to be the spirits of dead human females.
		The rusalki of the north are evil, luring men to their deaths with siren songs, drowning them in a watery embrace.
		The rusalki of the south are generally more gentle beings.
	www.gotojassminesitenow.com /goddesses/vila.html (2031 words)

	SUMMONING SPIRITS
		In the shadow of Chernobyl, the naked female spirits known as Rusalki rest uneasily in the earth, emerging from the brackish waters and dark woods to lure hapless wanderers with their enthralling songs.
		The spirits of women who have died untimely or unjust deaths, the Rusalki are thought to mediate between the human world and the natural realms of animals, weather and seasonal cycles.
		When the Kitka entourage arrived in the village of Havronshchyna for Provedu Rusalok, a ritual in which the old women of the village lead the Rusalki back to their underworld homes, they joined a throng of observers, including a TV crew from Kiev and several ornery ethnomusicologists.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/10/30/PKGKCFBHQ01.DTL (921 words)

	Ghosts and Spirits, A to Z
		Rusalki resemble naked corpses, with tangled green hair and glowing green eyes.
		Rusalki in the south of Russia, along the Danube, appear as beautiful young women.
		These Rusalki are described as moonlight-pale, with long blonde hair.
	www.jeremyrizza.com /twofist.guide.html (5458 words)

	Gray Owl’s Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		To initiate my pipe, I took my pipe to a place where rusalki dwell and asked for their blessing and protection to the pipe.
		I planted three plants which have beneficial energy to protect and beautify the home of the rusalki–a dreopteris fern, a white trillium, and bloodroot.
		Salt on bread is often given as an offering to spirits such as Domovoi (house spirit) or Rusalki (water fairies).
	www.grayowlshaman.com (1131 words)

	RIMSKY - KORSAKOV - May Night [RJF]: Classical CD Reviews- June 2003 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The rusalki appear, ensure that the Governor is outwitted and a happy ending ensues.
		This is heard to good effect in the Overture (CD1 tr.1) and the music of the rusalki in Act 3 (CD2 tr.5) where the imagery in the orchestra, aided by the sensitive chorus, conveys the atmosphere to perfection.
		In the rusalki scene (CD2 tr.4) he is tuneful and sensitive although his legato is not perfectly held.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2003/Aug03/RimskyK_May_Night.htm (996 words)

	CWF - Ellen Sebastian Chang
		Its focal point, the Rusalki, are powerful female figures in Slavic folklore, who appear in many old songs sung by village women in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Bulgaria, and surrounding regions.
		The Rusalki are thought to be the spirits of women who have died untimely or unjust deaths (such as brides who died on their wedding nights, or young mothers who perished in childbirth).
		In the folk arts, Rusalki are depicted as beautiful, siren-like women (half-woman and half-bird or half-fish) with wild, unbound hair (a striking contrast to “proper” Slavic maidens with meticulous plaits and married or widowed women who traditional conceal their hair).
	www.creativeworkfund.org /pages/bios/ellen_sebastian_chang.html (2134 words)

	Aether the Odyssey - Library: The Races of the North (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is a gallery of the northern races that were first met on Aether I: The rough and rowdy Empyrean-based race known as the Aesir, The Najada, the secluded and warlike Atlanteans and the mysterious halfbreed race known as the Rusalki.
		Description: One of the skin-shifting Najada, Atlanteans from the far north, where the seas are cold and the land is frozen.
		Description: The Rusalki are a race of halfbreeds, with both Atlantean and Empyrean qualities, the latter of which allows them to "fly" through the water.
	aether.mux.net /Odyssey/library/gallery/north.html (135 words)

	phoenixpage.html
		The ever-attentive Byely had dragged him off before he could get astride and deposited him on a gentler beast while his uncle pretended not to notice his indignity, which, Ivan supposed as he had watched Trey try to reacquaint himself with how to ride, he may not have noticed at all.
		The reminder of the rusalki and her trickery brought a frown back to Ivan’s face and he turned away to stare out over the passing landscape.
		All he knew was that a bargain had been struck between rusalki and firebird and his red haired lover intended to keep his secrets.
	www.angelfire.com /dragon/delilah/phoenix032.html (4005 words)

	Tome of Norse Mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Rusalki were Slavonic and Russian water nymphs.
		In the northern most regions, they were malevolent, unkept, and unattractive creatures, who would grab their unsuspecting victims and drag them down into the water and drown them.
		When summer came and the sun would heat the water, the Rusalki would leave and take up their residence within the cool forests.
	www.qnet.com /~raven/myths3.html (1640 words)

	Rabenstein Story Summaries 1213 A.D.
		Though they were angered to discover a murderer in their midst, the magi were forced to lend their aid to Wolfgang that they might end the rains.
		Since rusalki are thought to arise from the body of drowned maidens, it seemed that perhaps 'Rostan' sought to create a new rusalka from Christina, and required her skull to do so.
		Strangely the rusalki did not attack the group during the battle, as Lassitor removed a pendant of semi-precious stones from Rostock's body and commanded them successfully with it.
	www.unc.edu /~murphy/rabenstein/adventures_1213.html (6481 words)

	KITKA: Press Release: October 3, 2005: The Rusalka Cycle: Songs Between the Worlds
		Rusalki are powerful female figures in Slavic mythology and folklore, appearing in many old songs sung throughout Eastern Europe.
		Enticing, shape-shifting entities that inhabit the waters, forests, and fields, Rusalki lure people to them with their mesmerizing songs and laughter.
		Rusalki are the restless spirits of women who have died untimely, unnatural, or unjust deaths.
	www.kitka.org /press/pressrelease200510.html (1153 words)

	If It Dries Out, It's No Good: Women, Hair and Rusalki Beliefs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		There is something instinctual about communicating social behavior and intentions through hair.
		E.V. Pomerantseva, Mifologicheskie personazhi v russkom fol'klore (Moscow: Nauka, 1975) 68-74, Linda Ivanits, Russian Folk Belief (New York and London: ME Sharpe, 1989) 75-76, Natalie (Moyle) Kononenko, "Mermaids (Rusalki) and Russian Beliefs about Women", New Studies in Russian Language and Literature.
		D.K. Zelenin, Ocherki russkoi mifologii: Umershie neestestvennoiu smert'iu i rusalki (1916; reprint, Moscow: Indrik, 1995) 264 and Vladimir Propp, Russkie agrarnye prazdniki (1963; reprint, Saint Petersburg: Azbuka, 1995) 88, 90-92, Ivanits, 80-81.
	www.virginia.edu /~slavic/seefa/RUSALKA.HTM (3782 words)

	Mud Magic: Aether Plot Seeks Players!
		The Rusalki are a hybrid race of sea-dwellers with vast, iridescent "wings" that allow them to propel themselves through the water.
		They have special bonds with whales or dolphins of the northern waters, and travel in small, familial groups, usually with a "pod" of such creatures.
		The race is said to be a dying one, for there are more females born than males, and the number of Rusalki is slowly dwindling.
	www.mudmagic.com /boards/promote/11/103/103 (404 words)

	Faeries of the Novgorod Tribunal
		Whereas their lesser brethren, the nymphae, loose their powers if they leave the waters, the rusalki retain their powers outside the waters.
		Unlike the nymphae, the rusalki contact human not for the sake of curiosity.
		The rusalki uses their charming ability to drown humans (They prefer good looking men).
	www.durenmar.de /articles/novgorodfae.html (2205 words)

	ORANGE REVOLUTION :: Rusalka Cycle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the shadow of Chernobyl, the naked female spirits known as Rusalki rest
		The spirits of women who have died untimely or unjust deaths, the Rusalki
		Rusalki back to their underworld homes, they joined a throng of observers,
	www.orangerevolution.us /blog/_archives/2005/10/31/1333161.html (810 words)

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		During his travels he saved a Rusalki (forest faerie) who promised to help him in return.
		Left for dead the Rusalki came and brought him magical fruit from the Tsar's orchard.
		The Rusalki told him that if he wished revenge he should steal all the fruit from the Tsar's orchard, which he did.
	www.angelfire.com /wv/villains/phoenixpage.html (681 words)

	Fairy Encyclopedia - R
		Rusalkis are lovely female water faeries with long green hair who like to play water games with people.
		They do not seem deliberately malicious, but sometimes their games get rough and dangerous.
		Rusalkis share similarities to the other beautiful female water faeries in both Europe and the Orient, and the concept may be on which originated in India or northern Africa.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Forum/4611/fairyR.html (896 words)

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